Superstorm Sandy Anniversary: Challenges
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•Twelve Years After Sandy, Have We Gotten Better at Preparing for Disaster?
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Jeffrey Schlegelmilch is the director of Columbia ’s National Center for Disaster Preparedness .
He says some aspects of disaster preparedness and recovery have improved since Sandy .
He discusses the disaster response following Milton and Helene and how misinformation can hamper rescue efforts.
The impacts of compound extreme events are continuing to increase, he says.
The incentive structure for how policy is developed is not aligned at all with preparedness.
Voters reward response spending by re-electing officials, and they vote them out if a response is perceived to be bad.
Voters don’t respond to preparedness funding at the ballot box, even though it saves money, lives and livelihoods.
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